Cllr Derek Mitchell, who is Chairman of Wicklow’s Transportation and Environment Committee, has been lobbying to get an upgrade of the M50/N11 included in the Department of Transports Statement of Strategy for the next 3 years. ‘the traffic congestion on this overloaded section of road hinders job creation and is very frustrating for the residents of East Wicklow’

‘I have been trying to get this upgrade done for some years and met the previous Minister for Transport, Leo Varadkar, last December. He agreed to get a study done in 2014 and having it in the Strategy will help get funding for implementing a solution’ .